Sentences with phrase «public policy people»

So, charter schools and school finance issues are definitely «hot button» topics amongst many scholars and public policy people.

Angus responded by arguing that Chan's role as the company's leading public policy person in Canada means he's in charge of engaging with government on a wide range of business issues that affect Facebook, which has 23 million users in the country and more than two billion worldwide.

Not exact matches

Though the number of companies expanding their paid parental leave benefits is rising, Sandberg acknowledged that it's less common for employees to get paid time off to care for sick loved ones, saying that the US needs public policies «that make it easier for people to care for their children and aging parents and for families to mourn and heal after loss.»

There is room here for activist public policy aimed at assisting people as soon as they become unemployed — including very fast interventions to have resumés updated, interview skills improved and much shorter - duration job training programs (rather than ones that last months or years).

«Her problem is to remind people of her strengths and how her strengths are what the country needs right now,» says Robert Shapiro, an economic adviser to former President Bill Clinton and to Hillary Clinton when she was in the Senate, and a senior policy scholar at Georgetown's Center for Business and Public Ppolicy scholar at Georgetown's Center for Business and Public PolicyPolicy.

Apparently a lot of people who've incorporated are sensitive about having this gap between personal and small - business tax rates called a «loophole,» but what the heck: It's a loophole, in the sense that it was never designed as a goal of public policy.

But as people with experience solving complex problems, leading complex organizations and coping with regulatory and legal issues, they have a valid and vital perspective to express on matters of politics and public policy.

Amazon representatives have been lobbying FCC commissioners and staffers in person, with a visit on Nov. 29 and Dec. 6, the latter of which included a meeting between Ajit Pai, the FCC chairman, and Darren Achord, an Amazon senior public policy manager.

A growing subculture in economics and public policy seeks to replace GDP with new metrics that take into account how happy people are.

This circle would be easier to square if policy elites had performed better over the last 15 years, and could more credibly say that they had created the public institutions necessary for people to improve their own lives.

Among the people who've left or announced departures, either under pressure or for other reasons, are seven executives who had reported to Mr. Kalanick: SVP of Business Emil Michael, who is one of Mr. Kalanick's best friends and was the second-most powerful person at the company; ridesharing president Jeff Jones (ostensibly the No. 2 executive for Uber's core business); head of growth Ed Baker; engineering vice president Amit Singhal; communications and public policy chief Rachel Whetstone; head of finance Gautam Gupta; and Anthony Levandowski, head of Uber's autonomous vehicles program, who was fired amid theft allegations made against him by his former employer.

Our representatives are sent to Washington to work on behalf of the American people, to create laws and enact policies intended to keep the public safer.

If both businesses and law enforcement give prompt, upfront disclosure of what technology is being used and in what manner, it will make it easier for startups to do business and help ease people's concerns, says Tamir Israel, a staff lawyer with the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic at the University of Ottawa.

«I just happen to be an activist and public - policy maker, which you don't see in one person.»

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«There is going to be more people doing home - sharing tomorrow than there are today; there is going to be more the day after that,» said Chris Lehane, Airbnb's head of global policy and public affairs.

«We are committed to our mission to be a globally responsible company and to support the people of the state of California as they face this unprecedented drought,» said John Kelly, Starbucks senior vice president of Global Responsibility and Public Policy.

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«I support [Trump's] policies, but this public waterboarding of one of the greatest people Alabama has ever produced is inappropriate and insulting to the people of Alabama who know Jeff Sessions so well and elected him so often by overwhelming margins,» Brooks said in a statement.

C.D. Howe means exposure to first class critical analysis; participation in the development thoughtful public policy; and enjoying the company of dynamic people engaged in the broader community.

The highly educated people who make public policy explain that cheap imports make everyone a winner, according to economic theory.

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«Tobin was a person who really impressed me, because he had a passion for social justice and for public policy,» she said.

And these higher down payment rates you're talking about, some people are calling it the next big thing in terms of public policy and that's this macroprudential policy.

Economists view many labor markets as being in disequilibrium due to how legislation and public policy protect people and their jobs, or the amount they are compensated for their labor.

Fisman and his colleagues rightly assume that these students represent the new liberal meritocrats, the people likely to occupy important positions in government, exercise influence over public policy, and set the tone for establishment institutions.

At least people of faith like Rick Santorum point to the Natural Law as their basis to justify the relationship their faith has with moral public policy.

People who dictate public policy with their preference of genitalia are usually eunichs or worse.

Public policies on the poor have never done anything but make people better at being poor.

When speaking to Premier during our News Hour programme, the head of public policy for campaign group Christian Concern, Tim Dieppe encouraged people to have healthy arguments:

The point is that churches exceed their competence, undermine their credibility, skew their mission, and risk betraying the trust of their people when they turn themselves into political lobbies, promiscuously pronouncing and advocating on almost every policy issue in public dispute.

Abu Bakr and Umar, it was the policy when deciding public issues to consult with the leading disciples who were recognized for their accurate thinking, appreciation of the interests of the people, and grasp of the spirit of the legislation of the Qur» an and the Sunnah.

But I have a huge issue when religion is foisted upon me, it is used to make public policy, and used to inflict injury and death to people who are deemed «unworthy» (like gays or blacks or people who won't go along for the ride).

If there were people who were trying to rule your country according the the Oracle of Delphi - make laws and public policy according to it, hinder science, affect your taxes, and constantly admonish you that Hades'll smite ya» if ya» don't watch out; I'll just bet that you would show some interest in that alleged Oracle.

He intelligently applies such truisms to various marketing and public policy issues, but they are in service to his larger point: forget the formation of character and persuading people about whether something is true» the way to get things done is to condition behavior.

The central thrusts of a reborn reform movement should be stockholder action to effect corporate decision - making, the mobilization of public influence on Congress, the development of improved rating systems, the encouragement of research to support policy - making, and the creation of support mechanisms to encourage and inform creative people working in the media industries.10.

So what we have is public policy being made on a lie and declared truth by the very people that would benefit the most.

Current enthusiasm for civil society is usually traced to the arguments of Vaclav Havel, the Czech president, and others who posited the claims of civil society against the totalitarian claims of communism, and, earlier than that, to the To Empower People manifesto authored by Peter Berger and myself in order to lift up the crucial role of non-governmental «mediating institutions» in public policy.

Red, White, Blue, and Catholicby stephen p. whiteliguori, 101 pages, $ 12.99 In this primer on Catholic citizenship, the Ethics and Public Policy Center's Stephen White reminds us that faithful citizenship is about love — «love for the people and institutions to which we are bound by birth and by....

As far as I'm concerned, Obama takes the best of the Bible to apply it to his thinking on public policy and leaves the worst of it for you «born again» people to sort through with your various attempts to control everyone and keep all the poor people poor.

We can see this if we turn from thinking about care for a particular person to a problem for public policy.

We are also needed as public - policy advocates for the young people who are too often overlooked.

Indeed, it is simply remarkable that those people responsible for educational and social policy during the past three decades can not make the obvious connection between the deplorable state of education, the multiple tragedies of the inner cities, and the virtual elimination of religiously informed values from American public life.

If the «what» of human rights is to be grounded in American public policy, the «why» must be grounded in the religious beliefs of the American people.

Unfortunately, when there is talk of reducing population growth by public policies, many people immediately envision serious infringements on the freedom of families to make decisions about the number of children they shall have.

In important areas of public policy regarding the human person, relationships, justice, conflict, the care of the poor etc, a spiritual and moral world view is still needed.

Because someone's beliefs inevitably end up in their decision making, getting into public policy, teaching our children, politics, etc.... Witch burning would still be around if peoples beliefs were not challenged.